narwally

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by narwally 6y ago
Yeah, they're the ultimate 'syntactic sugar'. They take a bit of time to wrap your brain around, but it's much easier to figure out what a macro is doing under the hood than it is to figure out that exact semantics of sy
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by narwally 6y ago
For certain websites forcing them into their mobile version can be pretty useful, but it takes a bit of playing around to make everything work nicely together. I have a group of browser windows and a layout defined in stumpwm that includes
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by narwally 6y ago
Take a look at dynamic window managers. They allow for switching between tiling and floating windows.
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by narwally 6y ago
Lisp Programmers: "You guys are still trying to figure out parsing?" On a more serious note, the grammar ambiguity mentioned in the article is one of the things that has drawn me to languages that use s-expressions. Lisp are just
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by narwally 6y ago
This is for glass recycling not plastic, but I recently found out that my county ships all of their glass recyclables to be dumped in a landfill of a neighboring state. In my state, waste disposal companies are legally obligated to recycle
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by narwally 6y ago
That's how I do it. I don't have a 6+ figure salary, or tons of disposable income, so I can't afford to give 10% of my income without reducing how much I put into savings. One thing I do have is more time on my hands than the
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by narwally 6y ago
Isn't Preview limited to just annotations, or does it also do editing?
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by narwally 6y ago
Also Python Enhancement Proposal
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by narwally 6y ago
I had a similar experience with my first extended fast. I was just going to do three days, but I felt really good and not at all hungry at that point, so I extended it a day. But when went to break the fast, as soon as I started eating the
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by narwally 6y ago
Did you supplement with any vitamins or electrolytes? I've done a few 100hr fasts and definitely experienced a decrease in physical energy, but my mental clarity was always improved. I have ADD and use a mix of intermittent fasting and
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by narwally 6y ago
There's surprising little time you need to invest before magit starts paying back by decreasing the time you would have previously spent looking at the git documentation for the operations you don't use very often.
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by narwally 6y ago
M-x screenshot even exists, and there are the elpa packages emacs-gif-screencast and keycast . It's so easy to do from right inside of emacs that there really isn't a good excuse. Less than stellar documentation is a pet peev
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by narwally 6y ago
UNC Wilmington had their Blackboard installation go down for nearly a week in 2018 because of hurricane Florence. I know that was a big factor in their decision to switch to a SaaS. Not that they couldn't have moved their stuff into a
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by narwally 6y ago
I recently pulled out an old 2008 unibody Macbook pro just to play around on. It was a nearly %100 CPU utilization just attempting to play a 4K youtube video. That's something my $400 phone doesn't even break a sweat on. It's
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by narwally 6y ago
I was doing my first Linux install around the same time. I ordered an install CD from both Ubuntu and Linux Mint; the Mint one came in first, so that's the OS I used for my first few years. I used the CD to make a bootable usb stick so
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by narwally 6y ago
Yeah, I wasn't criticizing your comment, more observing how difficult things are going to be even in the most prepared districts.
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by narwally 6y ago
Teachers are the ones that have been sitting there for years preventing as much shit as they can from getting on the kids. My mom was a teacher for two decades and I can't tell you how much time and money I saw her and her coworkers pu
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by narwally 6y ago
Can you imagine beginning Kindergarten as a 5 year old this year? At least many of these kids have grown up around more technology than I did, I'm not sure I had even seen a computer when I was 5. I didn't have one at my house unt
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by narwally 6y ago
It's no different than it's always been. All of the hard work, planning and preparation has been on the shoulders of teachers for as long as I can remember. They've never had much guidance from leadership, which is often noth
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by narwally 6y ago
Even in the Clinton case there was a good reason he was asking for clarification. In his grand jury testimony he had stated "There's nothing going on between us." If 'there is' is interpreted as 'there is curr
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by narwally 6y ago
I'd recommend Doom for anyone that wants to base their own configurations on one of these. It's not as big of an abstraction layer on top of vanilla emacs, so it's easier to pull apart and reuse.
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by narwally 6y ago
I just switched to Doom from a very trimmed down and customized version of Spacemacs. I liked Spacemacs layer concepts, but many of them I had installed for very basic functionality like syntax highlighting and code formatting, but to get t
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by narwally 6y ago
I knew magit really was magic when all of the sudden I became the guy people went to when they needed help with with their complicated git tasks. Before magit I knew I was only scratching the surface of git's power, but could never fig
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by narwally 6y ago
I'll have to take a look at that, I love magit's UI for its ease of discovery. Before magit I didn't know that 'git bisect' existed, nor how useful it was. I can think of a few other utilities that would really bene
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by narwally 6y ago
Yeah, maybe it's more like "state is hard, so only Paul can do it. If you want to Paul to change some state for you, then you're gonna need to fill out this form."
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by narwally 6y ago
> What's the difference between what's being described here and the web? The web is generally terrible for accessibility. Since emacs has always prioritized maintaining compatibility between its graphical and text UIs, it words
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by narwally 6y ago
As someone that had some background in cladistics, I knew OOP was gonna get real complicated as soon as I saw animal hierarchies as a 'simple' example.
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by narwally 6y ago
OO: 'state is hard, let's make it easier by encapsulating it with only the procedures that need to manipulate it' FP: 'state is hard, let's not do it unless we absolutely have to'
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by narwally 6y ago
I'd say OOP 'won' because Java offered garbage collection and a C style syntax. The fact that it was also OOP was incidental.
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by narwally 6y ago
> The really freaky thing is that you already have groff on your Mac -- it's installed by default. No way, you're right. And of course it has a very detailed and well formatted man page. The one for troff even has tables.

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